Archive for May, 2006
Doug said the following when talking about Romans 9:
Our all-powerful God could choose to harden someone unto damnation, but our all-merciful God has not chosen to do so. Does he sometimes harden people (such as Pharaoh) to accomplish his tasks on earth. Sure. Does he ever harden someone guaranteeing them a place in hell. No.
Now [...]
19:14 Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord. 19:15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubs! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made [...]
Sorry for the delay! The holiday weekend threw me off.
I happen to love this chapter. Paul’s deepest desire is that the Jewish people would be saved. But the only way for that to happen is for them to throw off their own man-made righteousness and submit to God’s righteousness alone. [...]
This is a tough chapter because it opens by telling us that all of the wonderful things God has set forth for his people Israel. Paul says, “To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, [...]
Under the law, none of us can stand; in Christ Jesus, we are all set free. We are free to live according to the Spirit, and we have an obligation to live according to the Spirit. I think that’s interesting – we’re free, but obligated.
God is working behind the scenes to make everything [...]
Romans chapter seven starts with a very interesting illustration. It illustrates our relationship to the law. If what Paul is saying is true, the law no longer controls us because we died with Christ. I don’t think Paul is saying just go and throw away the Law of Moses but I think [...]
Let’s pick things up at the end of Romans 5, verse 20: “The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more.” This results in the question at the beginning of chapter 6: “Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?” Paul responds with [...]
17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods; 17:8 they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed [...]
“…we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”
Having gone through lots of suffering in my life, I can attest [...]
14:1 In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Joash son of Joahaz, Joash’s son Amaziah became king over Judah. 14:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. 14:3 He did what the Lord [...]
